Results for "Interview"

Mary Ann Redmond: On the Verge

by Dr. Judith Schlesinger
January 20, 2003

Mary Ann Redmond's powerful, passionate voice inspires critics to poetic heights. Dan McClenaghan, reviewing her Prisoner of the Heart CD for this site, wrote: “she can belt it out to shake the walls down or caress a lyric like she's petting a cat." Goldmine admired her ability to go from a “fragile whisper" to a “riveting ...

A Fireside Chat With Mark Whitecage

by AAJ Staff
January 18, 2003

When you speak to musicians on the East Coast, Mark Whitecage is mentioned. If you know nothing about Whitecage, know this, if musicians, his peers think of him as the poo, perhaps he is (the how can a billion Chinese people be wrong theory). You would never know this by reading any newspaper, which hardly knows ...

A Fireside Chat With Grachan Moncur III

by AAJ Staff
January 17, 2003

There are paths we take in life that are forever. Life is unforgiving and no one in jazz personifies that better than Grachan Moncur III. It took me over a year just to track down Grachan. And because of health issues, another year for him to sit down with the Roadshow. Allow me to be kind ...

Wayne Shorter: The Man and the Legacy

by Philip Gordon
January 16, 2003

During our conversation--shared just as he was preparing to put the finishing touches on his ideas for his upcoming show with the SFJAZZ Festival in October--Wayne revealed his sincere feelings towards his life, his music, his friendships and, his respect for the many world-class musicians with whom he has collaborated with throughout his impressive career; and ...

Gabriel Szternsztejn: A Different Kind of Fusion

by Javier AQ Ortiz
January 15, 2003

Researching a project for Jazz in Norway, Gabriel Szternsztejn--an Argentinean guitarist living in Spain--appeared featured on a Norwegian website. He is a musician's musician, with a singular compositional voice and a varied conceptual--as well as experiential--background.AAJ Contributor Javier Antonio Quiñones Ortiz spoke with Szternsztejn about his music and self-titled release. ...

Smoothjazzcanada.com Interviews Tony Adamo

November 7, 2002

John Beaudin's Smoothjazzcanada.com is Canada's most respected Smooth jazz site. Mr. Beaudin is also the drive time announcer at 103.1 the Breeze in Calgary, Canada. Read this interview with Tony Adamo at http://www.smoothjazzcanada.com. Adamo's song “Passport" is #1 on soundclicks.com's Smooth Jazz charts. Ecstasy" was also #1 for over a month on those same Smooth jazz ...

A Fireside Chat With Jason Moran (2002)

by AAJ Staff
October 10, 2002

I have always liked Jason Moran. If not his killing playing, his uncanny unwillingness to need to be the king of the playground. He is comfortable with his identity and so his approach is clear and ultimately his own. Now, I don't know much, but I have known since Oz's Further Ado, “JaMo" was to be ...

Saxophonist Mike Phillips: Changing the Game Interview

August 6, 2002

Ray Brown: A Jazz Odyssey

by C. Andrew Hovan
June 1, 2002

While it seems that things have come to a point in the history of jazz when many of the music's elder statesmen are leaving us and there are fewer and fewer masters left to pass on the proverbial flame, 75-year-old bassist Ray Brown continues to champion the mainstream cause while inflecting his own music with the ...

Rez Abbasi: Reziliently Brilliant

by Phil DiPietro
June 1, 2002

At 36, Rez Abbasi is the latest accomplished and proven musician with a few solo releases and a few sideman appearances in his discography to choose the independent jazz route. Born in Pakistan, raised in the USA since the age of three, and having gone east from west internationally as well as domestically, Abbasi is known ...